On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 10:40 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Friday 12 September 2008 20:52:52 Larry Finger wrote: > >> No, it won't avoid any casts. The program uses the data area 7 times > >> in native-cpu order, once as be32, and once in little-endian order > > > > Is the native use correct? Smells fishy. > > It does to me as well. I think we should assume fixed byte order unless the hardware is programmed differently for big-endian hosts (e.g. Atheros chipsets can byte-swap some registers). If the driver is working on little-endian systems, we should assume little-endian data unless testing proves us to be wrong. > I just got a copy of Intersil's data sheet for > the MAC and everything looks little endian, but until we get a tester > with a big-endian machine, we won't know. So far, no volunteers have > come forward. I have a PowerMac and a Prism54 card, so I can test. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
